Timeline for From password to key
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 20:43 | comment | added | Terrel Shumway | @Surferonthefall No, adding salt only makes the use of rainbow tables impractical for an attacker. 1000 bytes provides no advantage over 8 bytes, which many consider adequate. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 9:21 | comment | added | Surfer on the fall | Thanks, just a question: if I use a, for example, 1000chars salt in the passphrase, is the encryption significantly safer? | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 8:54 | comment | added | user10211 | @user1294101 just read through the documentation found on the openssl site. There is too much information to cover in a single question/answer. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 8:51 | comment | added | Surfer on the fall | Thanks, I'd want to know what is that process in openssl encryption. Are there any reference about that? | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 8:47 | history | answered | user10211 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |